Synonyms for herring
ˈhɛr ɪŋher·ring

Princeton's WordNet

1. herringnoun

   valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

2. herring, Clupea harangusnoun

   commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

Matched Categories

1. • Clupeid Fish
   • Food Fish
   • Saltwater Fish

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1. List of paraphrases for "herring":

   kipper, silvery, sill, codfish

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1. Conrad Nowak:

   Believe me, if there was anything to this Ukraine red herring, we would’ve heard about it a long time ago, chalupa was nothing more than an individual involved in ethnic relations, not unlike countless other ethnic and heritage communities throughout the United States.

2. Howard Means:

   Terry Norman is in a sense the second gunman on the grassy knoll ... He's been kind of a handy bogeyman or a red herring.

3. Joe Biden:

   When I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement, i’d go to 8 o’clock Mass, then I’d go to Rev. Herring’s church where we’d meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we were going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do.

4. Gerald Hassell:

   Headcount can be a bit of a red herring in terms of analysis.

5. Wendy Murphy:

   Herring said in a statement. The fact that Republican attorneys general are suing to block the ERA, and that they now have the support of the Trump Administration, is absolutely repugnant. FLASHBACK: WHY THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT IS A FEMINIST DISASTER On Tuesday, supporters of the ERAfiled a federal lawsuitin Massachusetts aimed at clearing a legal path for adoption of the amendment. The lawsuit argues that because the deadline was set forth in legislation authorizing states to ratify the amendment and not in the three-sentence amendment itself its not constitutionally binding and Virginias vote would put the amendment over the top. We are not surprised that the Trump administration acted swiftly to declare its opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.